682 9 min. ... America's Storm Last week, a loud scandal broke out in America related to the Russian mafia and criminal money laundering. The FBI claims that the Russian mafia has infiltrated Western financial structures and this poses a threat to the national security of both the United States and other countries. As an example, the account of the offshore company Benex with the Bank of New York is given, through which more than $10 billion passed in a year.

48 2 minutes. ... “This is not a conference call about railroad issues.” On the eve of Boris Yeltsin's departure to Bishkek, deputy head of the presidential administration SERGEY PRIKHODKO told Kommersant columnist ELENA TREGUBOVA why the president went to Kyrgyzstan and where else he was going in the near future. “This is the president’s third trip abroad this year, after a one-day visit to Amman and one-day participation in the Cologne G8 summit. Why did the president decide to go to Bishkek?

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311 3 min. ... The right has united to disassociate itself Sergei Kiriyenko, Boris Nemtsov and Irina Khakamada announced yesterday in Moscow the establishment of the Union of Right Forces bloc. They will also make up the top three of the union’s federal list. The bloc is expected to include the Right Cause coalition, the New Force and Voice of Russia movements.

199 2 minutes. ... "Soyuz TV" goes out The implementation of the ambitious Russian-Belarusian program "Union TV", within the framework of which it was planned to revive the production of TV receivers of Soviet brands, was under threat. Yesterday, the Moscow television plant Rubin, one of the initiators of the project, threatened to leave Soyuzny TV.

2K 1 min. ... The flight is normal Last week, the IV International Aerospace Salon took place in Zhukovsky near Moscow. Despite the representative composition of the participants and the scale with which the air show was held, visitors to MAKS-99 did not see any new products. More than 300 enterprises from Russia and the CIS, as well as about 100 foreign companies, took part in MAKS-99.

43 1 min. ... Sports on satellite TV Wednesday, August 25 TV channel "NTV-plus football" 12.00, 18.00 Free kick 12.15 Review of Spanish Championship matches 12.45 Team 13.15 Champions League archive. Final of the 1998/99 season. Bayern - Manchester United 16.00 International TV magazine Futbol Mundial 16.30 Review of English Championship matches 17.30 Our fan 18.15 MLS Championship.

39 1 min. ... World Athletics Championships 08/21/99. Women, pole 1. Stacy Dragila (USA) - 460. 2. Angela Balakhnova (Ukraine) - 455. 3. Tatyana Grigorieva (Australia) - 445. Men, core. 1. CJ Hunter (USA) - 21.79. 2. Olivier Sven-Buda (Germany) - 21.42. 3. Alexander Bagach (Ukraine) - 21.26. Men, 20 km walk. 1. Ilya Markov - 1.23:34. 2. Jefferson Perez (Ecuador) - 1.24:19. 3. Daniel Garcia (Mexico) - 1.24:31. 08/22/99. Men's 100 m. 1. Maurice Green (USA) - 9.80. 2. Bruni Surin (Canada) - 9.84.

677 1 min. ... Small banks play big Last week it unexpectedly became clear that regional banks can seriously compete with large Moscow institutions. The government commission decided not to allow medium and small banks to access the State Customs Committee's money. But they did not give up and were able to win over the head of the Federation Council Yegor Stroev. Now the commission is forced to reconsider its decisions.

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52 1 min. ... Tom Cruise: Don't care about the rules — How did Kubrick manage to attract you to his project? — Stanley sent a fax with an offer. He didn't even indicate what the movie would be about. Finally, almost a year later, he sent the script. We met and had lunch at his house. After a short discussion, Stanley said, "Okay, let's start filming." “Kubrick first made inquiries, fearing that you were a spoiled superstar.” Weren't you afraid of meeting a "mad recluse"?

1K 6 min. ... Little blood After the Duma approved Vladimir Putin as prime minister on August 16, and on August 19 the president “agreed with all the proposals” regarding the composition of the cabinet and on the same day issued 28 personnel decrees, it became clear: the government remained practically the same. It turns out that the government crisis was caused by the fact that the Kremlin only wanted to get rid of Stepashin. And the Minister of Justice Pavel Krasheninnikov.

970 4 min. ... Shamil Basayev retreated, but promises to return At what cost did the soldiers get the Donkey's Ear? Having lost 59 people killed and more than 200 wounded in the Dagestan war, federal troops liberated all the villages captured by the militants of Shamil Basayev and Khattab in the Botlikh region of the republic. The Mujahideen retreated to Chechnya. As Basayev states, he managed to retain most of his fighters and is now preparing for a new invasion of Dagestan.

243 3 min. ... Anatoly Bykov: an authoritative politician or just an authority? They want to imprison the head of KrAZ for murder Yesterday, the regional prosecutor's office of the Krasnoyarsk Territory confirmed information about the issuance of a warrant for the arrest of the chairman of the board of directors of the Krasnoyarsk Aluminum Plant, Anatoly Bykov.

6 6 min. ... Prices of major commodities on international exchanges Product name Place of sale Type of contract, maturity date Unit of measurement Price as of 08/23/99 ($) Change per day ($) Aluminum LME spot ton 1424 -3 Aluminum LME 3 months ton 1454 -2 Copper grade A LME spot ton 1611 -6 Copper grade A LME 3 months ton 1643 -9 Copper COMEX futures, October lb.